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▪ I. sweepy, n. dial.|ˈswiːpɪ|
Also 8 s.w. dial. zweepy.
[? f. sweep-chimney (sweep- 2) + -y dim. suffix. (Slightly earlier than sweep n. 33; cf. sweetie.)]
A chimney-sweep or his boy.
1798T. Morton Speed the Plough i. ii. (1800) 10 Little zweepy do tell I he can zee a bit out from the top of the chimbley. 1825–80Jamieson, Sweepie, a chimney sweeper, Aberd.
▪ II. sweepy, a. Chiefly poet.|ˈswiːpɪ|
[f. sweep n. or v. + -y.]
Characterized by sweeping movement or form; sweeping.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 651 The King of Floods..rowling onward, with a sweepy Sway, Bore Houses, Herds, and lab'ring Hinds away. 1700― Ovid's Met., Acis, Pol. & Galatea 127 The sweepy weight Of Ews that sink beneath the Milky fraight. 1722W. Hamilton Wallace 116 Bars, Bolts, and brazen Hinges..tumbl'd down before the sweepy Stroke. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 644 The Nile, who from the secret source Of Jove's high seat descends with sweepy force. 1790A. Wilson Thunderstorm Poet. Wks. (1846) 33 Hail furious flew and sweepy light'ning shone. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Columbus xvi, Groves, where each dome of sweepy leaves In air of morning gently heaves. 1821T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 184 His lines are flowing and sweepy. 1850Browning Christmas Eve viii. 9, I saw the back of Him—no more:..No face only the sight Of a sweepy garment, vast and white. |